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Hi all!
If you are bringing a guest put +1 right after your name. And if you have any kind of dietary restrictions, put it in parentheses after your name. You can also email me with your information and I'll add you to one or both of the proposed meals. deb at eximiousproductions dot com
Cheers,
Deb

The face-to-face meetings are a place for the people who try to Get Stuff Done at various open source projects and non-profits around open source to congregate, share information, and pick each others' brains.

The restaurant is now heading towards full. I've created a standby list - basically, if you're not on the list and want to eat with us, please let me know, turn up, have a drink with us before dinner, and if there's a spare seat at 8:30 (or we can fit in an extra two or three chairs) you're welcome to stay.

When and Where:

The face-to-face meetings are a place for the people who try to Get Stuff Done at various open source projects and non-profits around open source to congregate, share information, and pick each others' brains.

Most FLOSS projects probably *could* benefit from the structure and services
that a NPO could provide. However, whether or not you need to start your own
NPO to gain these services is a different question. We'll try to address both
issues in this document.

TYPICAL BENEFITS OF NPO EXISTENCE FOR FLOSS PROJECTS

- Ability to raise funds more easily/effectively
- They can give donors a tax benefit, and avoiding taxes on funds raised
- It may help them create a governance structure

The face-to-face meetings are a place for the people who try to Get Stuff Done at various open source projects and non-profits around open source to congregate, share information, and pick each others' brains. This year we will meet in July in San Jose California (USA). The meeting will be held on the Sunday and Monday before OSCON 2009, partly overlapping and in co-operation with the Community Leadership Summit being organised by Jono Bacon.

The face-to-face meetings are a place for the people who try to Get Stuff Done at various open source projects and non-profits around open source to congregate, share information, and pick each others' brains.

When and Where:

Allison's Notes

Update on Software for FLOSS Non-Profits:

- LedgerSMB (fork of SQL Ledger) is not ready for prime time. Goal was LedgerNPO for non-profits. Needed a code refactor, not finished yet.
- CiviCRM, Mozilla is about to deploy. Good for managing infrastructure, only very small tools for financial organization.
- TinyERP (was OpenERP), have a large set of accounting modules. Geared toward corporate use, have some modules that could be used for non-profit.
- Razor's Edge, proprietary.
- DonorWare, proprietary, built on open source WebGUI.

The summit is a place for the people who try to Get Stuff Done at the various non-profits around open source to congregate, share information, and pick each others' brains. This was the first FLOSS summit.